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Political polarization and the electoral effects of media bias
Bernhardt, Dan (contributor); Krasa, Stefan (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377072
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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011
; congress ; banks ; big business ; media ; courts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011131
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How to subvert democracy : Montesinos in Peru
McMillan, John; Zoido, Pablo - 2004
media. …
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Media capture in a democracy : the role of wealth concentration
Corneo, Giacomo (contributor) - 2005
Since objective news coverage is vital to democracy, captured media can seriously distort collective decisions. The … options and derive information about those effects from the mass media. The media might however secretly collude with interest …, it is shown that an increase in the concentration of firm ownership makes the occurrence of media bias more likely …
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Do people demand fact-checked news? : evidence from U.S. democrats
Anand Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2021
In a large-scale online experiment with U.S. Democrats, we examine how the demand for a newsletter about an economic relief plan changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for fact-checking when the newsletter features stories from an...
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E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet
Falck, Oliver; Carpi, Tito; Heblich, Stephan - 2012
; political economy ; mass media ; internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009540099
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Selective sharing of news items and the political position of news outlets
Freitag, Julian; Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2021
major German media outlets by analyzing tweets of German Members of Parliament (MPs) on Twitter. For each news outlet under … major media outlets from the USA and find that two outlets are positioned on the right, five are positioned on the left of …
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Detecting coverage bias in user-generated content
Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2021
The importance of user-generated content is growing as media consumption is moving online; yet, investigations of media …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418534
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News media vs. FRED-MD for macroeconomic forecasting
Ellingsen, Jon; Larsen, Vegard Høghaug; Thorsrud, Leif … - 2020
Using a unique dataset of 22.5 million news articles from the Dow Jones Newswires Archive, we perform an in depth real-time out-of-sample forecasting comparison study with one of the most widely used data sets in the newer forecasting literature, namely the FRED-MD dataset. Focusing on U.S. GDP,...
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Media's role in the making of a democrat : evidence from East Germany
Friehe, Tim; Müller, Helge; Neumeier, Florian - 2019
This paper explores the causal influence of media content on voting behavior. We exploit a natural experiment involving … notion that access to free media influences political attitudes and facilitates the consolidation of democracy. …
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